Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

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Restricting yourself to a limited subset of Sepples — like classes, single inheritance, no templates, no references, no operator overloading — is fine. It's just like using structs and functions but with less boilerplate code, and none of the ridiculous cognitive overhead from Bjarne's ``advanced'' features.